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James L. Cates Jr., a lifelong resident of Chapel Hill’s historically black Northside neighborhood, would’ve turned 70 this weekend. But at 22, he was stabbed and left to die at the heart of @UNC’s campus in 1970.

This will be a (long) thread about the circumstances surrounding James Cates’s death, and the role of UNC and police.

The full story of James’s murder has never been told. That it happened at all had largely been forgotten, whitewashed from Chapel Hill memory and history.